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Definition of Optimal
1. Adjective. Most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied. "Optimal concentration of a drug"
Definition of Optimal
1. Adjective. The best, most favourable or desirable, especially under some restriction ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Optimal
1. most desirable [adj]
Medical Definition of Optimal
1. The best, the most favourable. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optimal
Literary usage of Optimal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"After moderate doses of curare, these are both left present, although that with
the higher optimal rate of incidence of energy shows signs of abolition, ..."
2. Nutrient Composition of Rations for Short-term, High-intensity Combat Operations by Fnb, Institute of Medicine (U. S.), High-stress Situations, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, National Academy of Sciences (2005)
"The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance regarding questions that may be
used to make recommendations for an optimal ration composition, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Berkeley-Ames Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Control by L. R. Hunt, Clyde Martin (1984)
"This paper is concerned with a variational approach to optimal control. ...
optimal control problems can be considered to be variational problems in the ..."
4. Getting Started with the SAS 9.1 Adx Interface for Design of Experiments by Institute SAS Institute, SAS Institute (Carolina del Norte), Sas Institute (2004)
"Chapter 7 optimal Designs Chapter Contents Chapter Topics 161 Covered in This
Chapter 161 Experimental Objective 161 Task List 162 Creating the optimal ..."
5. New Developments and Applications in Experimental Design: Selected by Nancy Flournoy, William F. Rosenberger, Weng Kee Wong (1998)
"Locally and Bayesian optimal designs are obtained for the underlying nonlinear
model and in particular it is shown that the relevant Bayesian criteria can ..."
6. Adaptive Designs: Selected Proceedings of a 1992 Joint Ams-Ims-Siam Summer by Nancy Flournoy, William F. Rosenberger, American Mathematical Society, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1995)
"However, the optimal age to replace the system is unknown if the ... In general,
optimal replacement policies are designed to reduce the number of system ..."
7. Inequalities in Statistics and Probability: Proceedings of the Symposium on by Yung Liang Tong (1984)
"Therefore, we will also speak of optimal and non-optimal sign patterns. ...
A sign pattern <r is optimal or not depending on whether B(<r) is empty or ..."
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